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What is artificial life? How does it change biology, philosophy, psychology and computation? What are the impacts of artificial life? Each week, Tom Barbalet chats with a different artificial life developers, academics, users and musers.

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With the divergent history of artificial life, a number of the practitioners maintain their projects independently and work fulltime in other fields. Following ALIFE XI, this show explores what the quality of life issues are for artificial life... more

Following the ALIFE XI CD drop, a controversial topic. Does reciting the history of artificial life benefit contemporary practitioners? Does giving reference to original papers miss the true legacy of artificial life?

Returning from the UK, Bruce gives an update to the EvoGrid, GreyThumb London news and GreyThumb Silicon Vallye updates.

Following the Biota Conversation "Is Open Source Good for Artificial Life?" more than fifteen months ago, an update is needed. This also marks a week from the FLOSS Weekly chat with Tom Barbalet.

With the growing number of public artificial life projects, the needs for these projects is hard to survey. This week's show is devoted to discussing the projects that have current needs for development, user or other eyes/minds assistance.

The discussion to-date has related to moving artificial life creatures and the ideas surrounding these kinds of simulations. This episode we explore the digital green thumb projects that show plants and discuss their use in third party... more

Artificial life has motivated a good deal of applied philosophy through it's twenty or so defined years. What are the philosophies of artificial life? What can be learned from artificial life that will impact contemporary philosophy and are the... more

What is the future of Biota? Tom Barbalet, Bruce Damer and potentially other callers discuss the future of the artificial life community site.

Bruce Damer and Tom Barbalet discuss the EvoGrid and other Biota related projects

This show we give the audience a chance to ask questions of the regular guests to get updates and answers to outstanding questions.

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